A friend has told me about a game of "bowls" that can be played on the surface of a regular Pool Table.The benefits for aged participants are:(1) It is played standing up, without the need to bend.(2) All that is needed is an old pool table and a set of numbered "Kelly" pool balls. - These balls have an inbuilt bias, in the same way as regular lawn bowls.(3) A game can involve a number of players, and of course several watchers.I am interested to know whether anyone has seen this activity in action.

Hi DeniseI notice that Aldi have the Pool Balls on special at $19.95 on Saturady 24th Aug, you will need two sets. If you know anyone from a larger town that has an Aldi, they could buy them for you, this is very cheap.

Further to our MarPoolBowls, we have now started a monthly competition with another section of our village, vying for the impressive, much sort after, MarPool Bowls trophy. It is lovely to see the response to this competition, all of a sudden it's no longer a game, it's a challange, us Westerweller Warriors (with Red bandanas around our heads like ninjas) against the Winter Garden Gladiators (they have green)We have six players on each team facing each other with the kitty in the middle, we take alternate turns at bowling and it's best out of seven games.Score after 2 months WWW= 1 WGG= 1 In the end the game was the winner, producing sssssooooo much fun.We can't wait for the rematch.

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You're quite the special angel here to assist everyone. Know it sounds dorky but it takes a special kind of person to deal with seniors - they are not given the respect or credit they so deserve to have lasted this long on this earth. To have witnessed such history is amazing. So many are forgotten about and I try everyday to RAOKs to any person I see that could use it - thank you again for the great ideas which I hope to spread around the area to help make others know how special they are.